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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
JFC. Do you do anything, ANYTHING, but look up stats? Here's some for you, Professor. We averaged 485 yards and 39 points a game the last half of the season, a marked improvement from the first half when, coincidentally, Troy Smith was shaking the rust off.

We will not be the same offense you faced last year...
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OK..... Seeing how this is only the second game of the year how do you know that Troy Smith will not be rusty?? Defense almost always has the upper hand early in the season.
 
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inVINCEable said:
Is it also coincidence that during that stretch you faced some of the worst defenses in all of college football including Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern, and Notre Dame? The only defense that I can find respectable among that list was Michigan.
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Guess that depends on how you want to look at it...valid point for sure, but also goes back to that optimism/delusional debate we had earlier.

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inVINCEable said:
Is it also coincidence that during that stretch you faced some of the worst defenses in all of college football including Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern, and Notre Dame? The only defense that I can find respectable among that list was Michigan.
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But we'll still let you guys make the argument that your defense will be phenomenal this year b/c you shut down crummy Big XII offenses last year. That's fair. :roll1:

By the way, why do you have a picture of the in sync guy as your avatar? :lol:
 
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xrayrandy said:
I didn't say the first one. Your offense is not to be feared because they are average. tOSU played 7 teams that averaged giving up over 400 yards of offense. You averaged 400 yards of offense, so what.

On defense Rod Wright and Aaron Harris were injured much of the time and didn't play that great, so replacing them with someone who can play better is not that hard. Aaron Ross already was a better cover corner that Cedric griffin, so that isn't a big deal. Huff, or more precisely Michael Griffin's vacated FS spot, is the only place we will see a dropoff. Add in that the seven returning starters all appear to have improved over last year, and you can see that the defense will be a lot better this year, baring some major injuries.
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First off you are wrong Ohio State played 6 teams that allowed over 400 yards offense not 7. Whoopdy freaking do.... Texas played 3 You act like Texas played defenses that were soooo much better what a freaking joke.

Excluding playing each other, Texas for the season faced a defense that allowed on average, 370 total offense. Ohio State 397 yards. 29 whopping more yards... That means on average for the season Texas was facing the #58th ranked defense.

I just find you to be pretty much mindless. You gloss over losing your best player on your team, your best players on your defense and not only will there be no drop off, you think you will be better. Hell, 2 can play that game!

Randy, please stop with this stuff, your making yourself look like an absolute IDIOT.

The following Texas football players are listed as CONSENSUS all americans by the big 12 conference website.

Michael Huff, Rod Wright, Vince Young and Jonathan Scott. Every single one of those guys is GONE. Also gone are the following people who are members of the Associted Press ALL AMERICAN teams -- 3rd team Will Allen and Aaron Harris.
Cedric Griffin that you say is "not as good as Aaron Ross" sucked so bad that he stumbled his way on to the 1st team for All big 12..... funny I dont see Ross listed anywhere, not even Honorable Mention, imagine that!

The fact of the matter is that Wright, Young, Huff, Harris, Allen and Scott were all STUDS. For you to try and white wash there loss showes that you are either an idiot or that you think we are.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Being that Randy so enjoys statistics, methinks he oughta do a stat analysis on repeat champions. He'll find that they are a rare bird indeed. Last one I can think of is Nebby in 96, 97. (No, I don't count USC's AP championship in 03 and it's 04 BCS championship. Love or hate the system, the system is the BCS (And Carrol himself said as much in 2003 on selection day))
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You must mean '94 and '95. The 1996 season was the year Florida won the Sugar Bowl rematch with FSU, and got the NC since Arizona State had lost to tOSU in the Rose Bowl.

But I can understand how something about 1996 'slipped' in your brain. :(
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
OK..... Seeing how this is only the second game of the year how do you know that Troy Smith will not be rusty?? Defense almost always has the upper hand early in the season.
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its possibe. but i for one am confident he won't be. i watched him play a single series in the spring game and to say he looked sharp would be an understatement. i do realize it was a single series which can be less than revealing about the progression of a player. but imo, it looked like someone cut a drive from the nd game and pasted it into the spring game. every pass was on the money, he was checking down, he seemed to be reading the d properly (albeit a vanilla d), and scrambled at exactly the right time.

how will that translate to a real game? i honestly don't know. but from what i have seen (admittedly not much) im far more confident than conscerned about his progress.
 
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BB73 said:
You must mean '94 and '95. The 1996 season was the year Florida won the Sugar Bowl rematch with FSU, and got the NC since Arizona State had lost to tOSU in the Rose Bowl.

But I can understand how something about 1996 'slipped' in your brain. :(
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What I want to know is this: Has a frosh of any nature qbacked a team to the National Title?
 
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Btw if Snead is about as good as an athelete as Bomar he's got to be able to pass soon.

Edit: However I don't believe it will take much to be smarter than he is. It never gets old mentioning to OU fans him getting caught drinking at a Hornets game. I mean if you are the most recognizable minor in the state and you are drinking at a Hornets game how bright can you really be. Do you really expect to win a championship with a guy about as bright as a box of rights.

(I don't have a problem with his drinking btw, just in front of everyone in the world.)
 
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